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Director for Special Research . Turkey + former Soviet Union, mostly. Email: schenkkan[at]freedomhouse[dot]org.

Joined January 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Jul 2018

    New policy brief from me on US-Turkey relations after the elections:

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    11 hours ago

    I wish international press would be a bit more critical about this. The question is not "incarcerating children with their mothers," which in some cases may be the most ethical course. The issue is gratuitous prosecutions and unwillingness of prosecutors to show discretion

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    Türkiye'de en az 700 çocuk annesiyle birlikte cezaevinde 2 yaşındaki Miraz da ilk adımlarını cezaevi avlusunda atanlardan
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    11 hours ago

    You know US-Turkish relations are bad when a stretch that includes Trump attacking the Turkish economy and Erdogan threatening to attack US forces in Syria still counts as a thaw...

    Guy to watch in US - thaw is James Jeffrey . Fmr US Amb. to Ankara, speaks Turkish and now handles Syria, ISIS files. Since his appointment last summer, Turkey released Brunson, got cleare…
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  4. 11 hours ago

    First thing I'll say is I wish this could be done without an internet polling methodology.

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    Jan 18

    I made this cartoon for for the Day of the . Since 2016 has arrested 594 lawyers and convicted 216 of them. A total of 1500 lawyers are on trial.

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  6. 12 hours ago

    I would say more, but it's um 993 pages of Turkish so it's going to take me a few minutes.

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  7. 12 hours ago

    Giant new report on the social impact of the state of emergency led by :

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  8. 12 hours ago

    Especially considering how everything these days is about Russian influence...

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Angle I would have taken instead: How America's Dirty Tricks Campaigners Supercharged Anti-Soros Politics in Central Europe

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  10. 13 hours ago

    It's an interesting aspect, but I'm not sure that Hungary's campaign per se was the tipping point for anti-Soros stuff.

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  11. 13 hours ago

    Also a bit self-congratulatory, since by 2013 anti-Soros campaigning was a staple of Eastern European and post-Soviet politics

    Very long but good write-up of how two US political consultants launched Viktor Orban’s anti-Soros campaign
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  12. 13 hours ago

    And that's when we found out about the war

    Thoughts on the documents on Trump’s desk in the photograph of the Kim Yong Chol meeting shared by ? Here’s a high-res crop from the White House’s official Flickr page.
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    13 hours ago

    A lawyer of Turkish origin was appointed as the Vice President of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), becoming the country’s first official with an immigrant background in intelligence services

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Ah, Stratfor

    If the - relationship continues to fray, other powers, including the United States, Iran and Turkey, could make inroads in the country and weaken Russia's position.
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  15. 14 hours ago

    I need an infographic for the relationship between huzun, saudade, and тоска.

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    16 hours ago

    Kinda wish I didn’t hit that ol’ “translate tweet”.

    Neue Erkenntnisse in der Mittelalterforschung: Waren die Kreuzzüge Notwehr?
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  17. 17 hours ago

    His job was to liaison with local police, which is to say, his crime was his job.

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  18. 17 hours ago

    Turkey indicts Metin Topuz, employee of US consulate already in prison for more than a year, seeks life sentence: . His "crime" is he was in touch with police officers who were later charged as Gülenists.

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    17 hours ago

    A Peace Prize for Turkish political prisoner ? It's a pretty good idea.

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  20. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Kerch Strait ACCIDENT: Ships catch fire in Kerch. Turkish & Indian national involved

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    17 hours ago

    Rusya: Kerç Boğazı'nda iki gemi alev aldı, mürettabat içinde Türkler de var

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